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N5251H

Cessna 172M

N5251H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rochelle Park, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 1987 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 30, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17265384
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A69E04 (octal 51517004)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 13, 1987
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 30, 1975
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00932475

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Luyster Roy A
Type
Co-owned
Address
98 James St
Rochelle Park, NJ 07662-3405
Co-owners
Luyster Judy A

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1970-05-15Piper PA-16 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5251H, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Luyster Roy A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 13, 1987, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 30, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265384 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5251H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-16 (serial 16-55, cancelled May 15, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5251H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data